Megaupload Gets Shut Down
Yesterday, at roughly 2pm EST, the U.S. Justice Department shut down Megaupload, the popular Storage and Back-Up Service which accounts for roughly 1% of total traffic on fixed access networks in...
View ArticleMobile Networks Teeming with Streaming: Global Internet Phenomena Report: 1H...
Spring has sprung and after spending the winter hibernating in Waterloo, our Global Internet Phenomena researchers have emerged with yet another report shedding light on the latest Internet trends. In...
View ArticleOlympic Update: False Starts and New Insights
There has been a lot of talk in the media this week about the impact that the 2012 Summer Olympic events has had on Social Networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, and real-time entertainment...
View ArticleUntold Stories of the 1H 2013 Global Internet Phenomena Report: How Does...
At Sandvine, we’ve long argued that implementing UBB would likely have minimal (if any) impact on network congestion and subscriber quality of experience (QoE) during peak, as subscribers are unlikely...
View Article2H 2013 Global Internet Phenomena Report: Africa Snapshot
Twice a year, I spend a month locked in my office with a case of Diet Coke while I work on Sandvine’s Global Internet Phenomena report. Today, I’m pleased to announce that I have emerged, and you can...
View ArticleTraffic Spotlight: Snappy New Year
I remember reading an article over a decade ago that talked about how mobile operators would be flooded with text messages at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve. Fast forward ten years,...
View ArticleSANDVINE: A LOOK BACK AT 2013
It’s early 2014 and we are recovering from the holiday season and starting to get back to our routines. What better time to look back at the events of 2013 and see how they impacted internet usage...
View ArticleTraffic Spotlight: Holiday Highs and Lows
Traffic Spotlight: Holiday Highs and Lows I spent a bunch of my holiday time in December and January relaxing with friends and family, I also had the opportunity to catch up on a bunch of longreads I...
View ArticleSponsored Connectivity Revisited
Recently AT&T made some pretty big waves at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) by announcing their intention to offer sponsored data to their subscribers. At Sandvine, we’ve been talking about...
View ArticleHBO GOes Down
Alright, Alright, Alright is something HBO GO users weren’t saying last night. HBO GO was offering subscribers (and perhaps a few of their friends) the ability to not only stream True Detective’s...
View ArticleYahoo’s NFL Streaming Experiment
Yahoo released a bunch of numbers today about their big NFL streaming experiment yesterday. Below are some of the figures they reported: 2 million: Unique viewers “exposed” to the stream, thanks to it...
View Article“Inside the Connected Home”– A Global Internet Phenomena Spotlight
In this era of the Internet of Things (IoT), there is no practical limit to the number of devices that can have an IP address. Knowing this, Sandvine decided to do a little research with the hopes of...
View ArticleWISPAPALOOZA’s Wi-Fi
Last week, Sandvine and our partner ConVergence attended WISPAPALOOZA 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. WISPAPALOOZA is the annual conference for WISPA, an organization for fixed-wireless Internet service...
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